Joe Kimura, M.D., M.P.H., was named chief medical officer of the SCAN Group in Long Beach, California, in April 2025. Before SCAN, Kimura was the chief medical officer at Somatus, Inc., a value-based care company for kidney and cardiovascular disease, and at Atrius Health, a multispecialty medical group in Massachusetts, where he led a number of value-based care initiatives, clinical analytics and digital health solutions. Kimura has an M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine and an M.P.H. from Harvard University. He completed his primary care internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
The SCAN Group operates SCAN Health Plan, a prominent Medicare Advantage plan with more than 300,000 members in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas New Mexi